When the Bass Player has a distortion pedal

[LaLaFaV]

My band just did this recently on one of our songs. I'd say just mic the distorted cabinet sound on one track and also have a 2nd track of clean DI, simultaneously.
Blend them to taste later or just have each separate track playing at certain parts of the song. It's flexible that way.

[Nu-tra]

Well on this last one we split the bass DI and sent one to a guitar amp and the other to a normal bass amp. Blend them together or not.

[lord_bunny]

I 2nd these folks. The Big muff is really great at maintaining the low end that other pedals can rob from the tone. That being said using the amp for the growl and the direct for the 60hz seems to be an accepted method.

[joeq]

the title of this thread reminded me of the late 60's when album credits would read

"Bob Smith - vocals, bass, fuzz bass"

as if they were two different instruments.

[Nu-tra]

I love that route 66 pedal for bass. I also have a box called the agry troll that george tripps from the Way Huge Co. made about a year ago. It's crazy!